Sofia maeia kjellstrom



(No Model.)

S. M. KJELLSTROM. GOAL AND ASH SEPABATING DEVICE.

Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

NITED STATES PATENT 'FFICE.

SOFIA MARIA KJELLSTROM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COAL AND ASH SEPARATING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 552,250, dated December 31, 1895. Application filed August 14, 1895, Serial No 559,262. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SOFIA MARIA KJELL= STROM, of New York,'county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coal and Ash Separating Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view, Fig. 2 a top view, Fig. 3 a side view, and Fig. 4 a front view, of my improved coal and ash separator; and Fig. 5 shows the shape of the blank, stamped out of sheet metal, of which my improved coal and ash separator is made.

When the fire is dumped in the kitchenstove or in a heater, a considerable part of the coal, not yet wholly consumed, is thrown in the ash-pit, together with the ashes. Saving housekeepers employ sieves to separate this unconsumed coal from the ashes. For this purpose the contents of the ash-pit are carried out into the yard and there passed through a sieve. This, however, requires double handling of the material and produces twice a cloud of fine ashes scattered into the air. In tenement-houses, where no yard is allotted to the tenants, the separating of the coal from the ashes must necessarily be done in the kitchen. The raking of the sieve causes the fine particles of ash to rise, and the atmosphere of the room is quickly filled with penetrating dust.

My invention tends to provide a simple, cheap, and durable utensil for separating the unconsumed pieces of coal from the ashes by one handling and to avoid as much as possible the raising of fine ashes into the atmosphere of the room. WVith this end in view my improved coal and ash separator (shown in Fig. 1) consists of shield at, tines Z2, and handle 0. Hole d in handle 0 is for conveniently keeping the utensil hung on a nail when not in use.

The separator is made of sheet-iron, (or of any other sheet metal,) a blank, in the shape shown in Fig. 5 being first stamped out, and then the sides, the tines, and the holder being appropriately bent into the shape shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The separator is intended to be used in connection with a shovel, preferably such as is used in the kitchen, though it may be adapted for any kind of shovel used for removing ashes from the ash-pit in the kitchen stove or heater.

The sifting of the coal-pieces from the ashes is done by drawing the separator, set in position, as shown in Fig. 1, on the coal-shovel from the lower edge upward toward the handle. all pieces of coal from the ashes and retain them upon the shield at, the ashes passing between the tines into the pail.

The dumped coal and ashes are usually transferred from the ash-pit to a pail to be removed, and during this action the pieces of coal maybe separated from the ashes by means of my improved coal and ash separator, the person transferring the ashes and coal from the ash-pit separating at the same time the coal-pieces not yet consumed from the ashes, removing them and dropping the ashes into the pail. The separator covers the shovel and thereby prevents to a great extent the rising of the fine ashes into the atmosphere, so that by using it not even so much of the dust is produced as would rise by using the open shovel for transferring the ashes from the ash-pit to a pail, and, besides this, by using my improved coal and ash separator the otherwise necessary processsecond handling of the ashes, sifting them through a sieve and the nuisance attending itwi11 be completely dispensed with.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, the herein described utensil for sifting and separating unconsumed pieces of coal from the ashes, comprising a shield having edges bent to cover a shovel and tines adapted to separate and retain unused parts of coal, and a suit.- able handle.

SOFIA MARIA KJELLSTROM. Witnesses:

J OHN P. NoRDsrRoM, E. O. NIELSON.

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